Plate for embossed printing.



W. B. WAIT.

PLATE FOR EMBOSSED PRINTING.

APPLICATION FILED IUIIE 5, I9I3.

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WILLIAM'. B. WAIT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PLATE FOR EMBOSSED PRINTING.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

Application filed .Tune 5, 1913. Serial No. 771,911.

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM B. WAIT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Plates for Embossed Printing, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a plate which is designed for embossing characters on a sheet of paper, and essentially adapted for use on an embossing machine of the kind shown in my application Serial No. 732,079 liled November 18th 1912.

rIlhe plate is formed of thin flexible metal such as aluminum or brass and it has elevations and channels, the elevations having embossed characters, while the channels are provided with elastic strips for protecting the impressions produced by the opposite plate.

The object of the invention is to provide the elastic strips with devices for holding the strips rigidly into the channel. Each elastic strip when fitted into a channel is kept under tension by means of its holding devices, and the strip is thereby held snugly along its entire length into the channel.

The novel features of the invention are more fully described in the following speciication and claim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 represents a vertical section taken along the line w Fig. 2, of a plate embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section taken along the line y y of Fig. 2. Fig. 4l is a similar section showing a curved plate. Fig.

5 is a perspective view of the end portion of a strip. In this drawing is shown a plate having a series of channels a and elevations Z) with embossed characters stamped on the elevated portions of the plate. In each channel is arranged a rubber strip c provided at each end with a hook member (l secured to the strip. The hook member is preferably formed of wire and it is fastened to the rubber by bending one end to lirmly clasp the end portion of the rubber. The hook end of the member is adapted to engage the edge portion or an eye formed in the plate. The elastic strip when fitted into a channel is somewhat shorter than the width of the plate and by hooking each end of the strip to the plate it stretches the elastic to embrace the channel and prevent outward movement or displacement of the strip along its entire length.

The plate may be employed for a form or for attachment to a cylinder, and is used in connection with an embossing machine.

I claim:

An embossing plate having elevations and channels, an elastic strip arranged in each of the channels, a hook member secured to each end of the strip adapted to tension the strip thereby holding it firmly in the channel. and engage the plate.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM B. WAIT.

Witnesses:

CHRISTIAN H. ALMs'rnAD, WILLIAM MILLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, 1D. C. 

